Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has told Kenyans to get used to the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC).
Gachagua, while speaking on Wednesday, said that the controversial education system is going nowhere and will not be replaced with the previous 8-4-4 system.
“For the avoidance of doubt, CBC is not being repealed. We are going to keep and improve what is good and address challenges facing our children,” said Gachagua.
President William Ruto had in September pledged that he would establish an Education Reform Task Force that will take in the views of Kenyans on the curriculum.
This followed concerns raised by parents on the double transition of learners to secondary schools in January amid limited accommodation and the high cost of the CBC.
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“We will establish an Education Reform Task Force in the Presidency which will be launched in the coming weeks,” he said.
On 30th September 2022, he appointed a task force to evaluate the Competency-Based Curriculum in the country.
The appointment of the Working Party on Education Reforms was made via a Kenya Gazette Notice. The 49-member Working Party is chaired by Prof. Raphael Munavu.
It will subsist for six months and issue the President with a progress report every two months.
